# gradCapital

> gradCapital is a VC fund in Bangalore backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 32 investments, round sizes, portfolio. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, India
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 19%
- Fund size: $8M
- Last fund: Aug 2025
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gradcapital/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/gradcapital
- Website: https://www.gradcapital.in/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gradcapital

gradCapital is a VC fund in Bangalore focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. gradCapital invests in rebellious student founders

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 19% |
| Software | 5 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 13% |
| SaaS | 3 | 9% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 9% |

60 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 15 | 47% |
| Seed | 14 | 44% |
| Angel | 1 | 3% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 23 | 72% |
| United States | 4 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dirac Labs | Dirac Labs is a provider of GPS free navigation quantum sensors for underground and underwater exploration. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Aug 20, 2026 | https://diraclabs.com/ |
| Armatrix Automations | Armatrix Automations is a manufacturer and designer of industrial and defense robotics. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Feb 25, 2026 | https://armatrix.in/ |
| Pluto Mobility | Pluto Mobility is an electric vehicle company specializing in compact, scooter-sized electric 4-wheelers designed for last-mile delivery logistics. | $2M | Seed | Feb 19, 2026 | https://www.plutomobility.in |
| MEINE Electric | MEINE Electric leads sustainable energy innovation, offering advanced solutions for efficient, eco-friendly energy storage and generation. | $750K | Pre-Seed | Jan 21, 2026 | https://meineelectric.com/ |
| Riverline AI | Riverline creates AI debt counselors who communicate with distressed consumers and guide them to better creditworthy decisions. | $825K | Pre-Seed | Nov 25, 2025 | https://riverline.ai/ |
| Invaro | Invaro builds AI agents for accounting that automate accounting workflows for accountants and businesses. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Jun 16, 2025 | https://www.invaro.ai/in |
| Stimuler | Stimuler creates communication skills assessment products for hiring & training needs of corporations as well as individual improvement | $3.8M | Seed | Apr 30, 2025 | https://stimuler.tech |
| Pipeshift | Pipeshift is a modular orchestration platform for building with open-source AI components—embeddings, vector databases, LLMs, vision models, and audio models—across any cloud or on-premise. Enterprises get to deploy their AI workloads in production faster and more reliably. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jan 23, 2025 | https://pipeshift.com |
| Airbound | Airbound aims to enable 100km delivery at 20rs ($0.25) to every corner of the world. We're able to do this by building the world's first blended wing body tailsitter, which allows us to have a much smaller and cheaper frame, and a 0 infrastructure requirement. We want to bring this technology to the most rural parts of India, where therecurrently in no delivery service, and enable essential medical deliveries between Community Health Centers (CHCs), Primary Health Centers (CHCs), and Subcenters (SCs). | $1.7M | Seed | Nov 14, 2024 | https://airbound.co |
| Worker AI | Worker AI specialises in AI powered automation of B2B sales processes in the sales and marketing industries. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2024 | https://www.workerai.co/ |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does gradCapital invest in?

gradCapital invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did gradCapital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for gradCapital closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 32 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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